"….The ignorant
will say, 'We have many times defamed the Highest,
and nevertheless we still exist; no fire has
seared us, and nothing threatens us.' Then let us
lead them to the public square, where blind
beggars are crawling in filth, and say to them,
'There also are you.' Let us lead them into
prisons, into mines, to fires, to executions, and
say, 'Can it be that you do not recognize
yourselves? You have just severed the thread with
the Highest, and you have hurled yourselves into
the abyss.' It is not necessary to terrify with
threats, life is full of examples of such horrors.
Remember that the pressure of fire is invisible,
yet nothing can escape its consequences. …even the
ancients understood the justice of the law, and
knew that offense against the Primary Principles
is so great and terrible that the result cannot be
immediately seen."Fiery World,
Vol. II (237)

In the 1989 edition of Webster's
Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English
Language, the primary definition given for the
word "law" is "the principles and regulations
established by a government and applicable to a
people." A third definition refers to "the controlling
influence" of designated rules and "the condition of
society brought about by their observance." It is not
until we move down the list that we find in the 13th
definition a reference relating law to "the will of a
deity." In this example we see so clearly and
poignantly the juxtaposition and relationship of
Cosmic Law, humanity's free will and our contemporary
understanding of law. The sublime, the sacred and the
lofty are as an after thought and made subordinate to
the mundane and the circumscribed.

Yet the Laws of Cosmos are inviolable
and the Hierarchy of Being stands upon these exact
laws. Such recorded historic texts as the Puranas,
the Upanishads, and other ancient covenants
transmit with absolute exactness the laws of Being.
The Vyâsas of old and all succeeding Teachers of the
Wisdom have sought to reveal these laws, emphasizing
the need to honor them and live by their precepts,
pointing out time and again that an understanding of
such laws could ennoble all of humanity. However,
to-date, humanity has chosen to ignore the greater
Reality of which it is a part. In the words of the
Agni Yoga Wisdom, "Man who has been predestined by
the Cosmos to be a builder and co-creator, has
turned himself away from this crown."1

Exercising its divinely given free will,
instead of communion and interrelationship with the
Higher Spheres, humanity en masse has chosen the
corridors of self-contained darkness, cut off from the
great Ladder of luminous Beings Who would lend of
their energies, if we but would invoke them. In spite
of the painfully obvious ramifications all around us,
free will is the dignity of humanity and the Forces of
Light do not and will not coerce or impose. It is
pointed out that spiritual evolution cannot be forced
and the Higher Spheres can only be contacted through
each individual flaming heart in service to the Common
Good.

In the book, Hierarchy,
the Masters of the Wisdom further explain the merit of
free will and its relationship to the Aquarian quality
of cooperation: "We oppose any coercion. We do not
direct the energy without the consent of the
co-worker. We know the worthlessness of everything
superficial and outwardly propelled. Like a builder,
We summon co-workers."2
And, "the Forces of Light do not stop the spirit
from certain actions which violate often that which
has been ordained. Often people are perplexed as to
why the other paths are not indicated. …Let us
reply, 'The Forces of Light never invade human
Karma.'"3

Although free will permits numerous
perversions and contradictions, any alternative leads
to the question, is any true union possible where
there is no responsibility for the individual will?
Self-sacrifice can neither be prompted nor commanded
and transformation is only possible when the
individual voluntarily begins the ascent towards the
Light.

Just as ideology was the basic theme of
the past 2500 years of the Piscean Age, so is relationship
the outstanding theme of the Age of Aquarius. In so
much as the Age of Aquarius affirms humanity's free
will, so too, does it evoke the spirit of cooperation,
synthesis and loving understanding, resulting in the
enlightened realization that without harmony with the
Higher Spheres, free will leads into the abyss. Thus,
the call goes forth, let us not violate free will, let
each one of us sense the Great Vibrations in our own
way, and make haste in applying them.